Improvement in corsets



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEroE.

WALTER S. HUNT AND CHARLES F. HUNT, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

y IMPROVEMENT IN coRsETs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 210,038, dated November 19, 1878; application filed Y April 18, 1878. f

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, WALTER S. HUNT and CHARLES F. HUNT, of Providence, Rhode Island, have invented Improvements in Corsets, of which the following is a specilication:

Our present improvements and invention relate to corsets for ladies7 wear, and more particularly to wire-gauze corsets, such as are described and shown in the Letters Patent to us, No. 196,020, of date 9th October, 18,77, being in the nature of improvements thereon.

This invention consists in two substantial modifications or improvements of our wiregauze corset, to wit: iirst, in constructing the side of the corset with a placket or open seam between the waist and the hip part, so as to allow of free and independent play of each part in the movements of the body of the wearer without constant bending` of the wire or substance of the corset or compression of the body; second, in making a part of the corset from and below the waist-line of a separate and detachable piece, so as to admit, as before, of independent play of the parts without bending of the material or compression of the body, and also so that the hip part may be made of cloth or any other fabric, readily taken ont and insert-ed, and allowing still more freedom of action by reason of the side seams or lacings 5 and these two improvements may be combined in the same corset, or any two of them, or used separately, as desired.

In the drawings, Figures l and 2 represent views of the left side and right side, respectively, ofour improved corset as it would appear on the body of the wearer, though .not in so smooth and symmetrically-distended shape.

Ais the main part or body of the corset, made of four parts, connected at the stays and seams b b b b and lacings G Cr Cr, and clasps or lacing in front. (Not distinctly shown in the drawing.) l y D D are open seams or plackets dividing the waist from the hip parts of thc corset, and are placed just where the bend occurs when the body ofthe wearer bends forwarder sidewise, and may extend to a greater or. less proportion of the circumference of the waist, as at D in Fig. 1, or may be continued, as at D in Fig. l, and as in Fig. 2; or it maybe continued bei tween the stays through nearly the whole circumference ofthe waist.

H H are the back parts below the waistline, and are ofthe same material as the rest -held in the corset bylacin gs, as at f g, in front and rear, and this should be made of the proper size and shape to contain and cover that part of the hip ofthe wearer which is withinv the contour of the corset. For this purpose it may be either quadrilateral or semicircular, or of any suitable shape, and the lacings f and g may be put in in any way to effect the proper result.

The object of these improvements, as of our former invention referred to, is to make an anatomically perfect corset, and also one that is durable, cheap, and cool. These improvements conserve this end in the following ways: The constant bending of the body of the wearer causes a constant leXion of the corset at the waist-line, and this tends to break the gauze in time, as well as to compress the body of the wearer and cause discomfort. Both these objections are removed by making the open seam at D, as described, and better by making the part E detachable and more flexible by reason of the lacings. This latter, when so constructed, can be eas ily taken out and washed, or enlarged, as during pregnancy of the wearer.

We claim as new and of our inventionl. In combination with the body A of a wire-gauze corset, extending below the Waist in front and back, but eut short along the natural waist-line at D above lthe hips, the detachable hip part K, the lacings f and g, and the stays b b, all constructed and arranged to operate substantially as described.

2. In a-wire-gauze corset, the openingD along the natural waist-line, between the stays b b or b G, and above the close-fitting hip part K, substantially as described.

WALTER S. HUNT.

CHARLES F. HUNT.

Witnesses:

AMos A. WHITE, J. BURTrs WRITE. 

